Abstract
A reduced state sequence detector (RSSD) which combines decision feedback with Viterbi decoding is proposed for M-ary full response continuous phase modulation. The detector is analysed with minimum Euclidean distances and by simulations of the symbol error probability. It is shown that M-ary full response CPM schemes can be optimally decoded by a decoder with only two states when the modulation index is relatively small (≲1/M). It is shown that, for all larger modulation indices < 1, M-ary full response CPM schemes can be decoded using a decoder with M states with only minor degradation in error performance.

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